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The UN expert, British lawyer Michael Wood, spoke on Thursday before the International Court of Justise (ICJ) as part of the Jordanian legal team for oral arguments before the court.

Wood was part of the Jordanian delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi, who presented Jordan's plea before the ICJ in The Hague regarding the advisory opinion requested by the United Nations General Assembly regarding Israeli practices that affect the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.

Who is lawyer Michael Wood?

Sir Michael Wood, is a member of the International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He is a barrister at 20 Essex Street, London. He was Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) between 1999 and 2006, according to the United Nations.

 

He joined the FCO as an Assistant Legal Adviser in 1970, and was a member of the United Kingdom delegation to many international conferences, including most sessions of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. His postings included three years (1991-1994) at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York, dealing chiefly with Security Council matters.